1,009 Quotes About Secret

You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

Sometimes it's our secrets that define us.